beachboy wrote:

> can we get the max value of element from xpath
>
> e.g: Xpath Query Expression: /Books/Book[@id='3'] to select XMLNode which id
> is "3"
>
> Can I use Xpath to get the MAX Book id?

>
>
> beachboy wrote:
>
> > can we get the max value of element from xpath
> >
> > e.g: Xpath Query Expression: /Books/Book[@id='3'] to select XMLNode
which id
> > is "3"
> >
> > Can I use Xpath to get the MAX Book id?
>
> This XPath expression
>
> /Books/Book[not(@id <= preceding-sibling::Book/@id) and not(@id <=
> following-sibling::Book/@id)]
>
> selects the Book element with the maximum id attribute value.
>
> If you want to select the attribute itself then use
>
> /Books/Book/@id[not(. <= ../preceding-sibling::Book/@id) and not(. <=
> ../following-sibling::Book/@id)]
>
> --
>
> Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
> http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

beachboy wrote:

> but how to implement below expression? what type will return? XmlNode or
> just a value of id
> /Books/Book/@id[not(. <= ../preceding-sibling::Book/@id) and not(. <=
> ../following-sibling::Book/@id)]